Doctor J

Before I went back to playing a kit, when I was programming, I used to use a slightly different snare sound (either a different sample or a change in velocity to get something different) to replicate what you're trying to do and avoid the machine gun effect. Never more than two of the same sound in a row.

Depending on the wood underneath, there may not be much to see, no matter how translucent the finish is. Alder can be very plain. Likewise, if they're using basswood.

I always considered Wilkinson parts to be on the extreme budget side of boutique, it never would have thought of them as highly rated in the first place, to be honest.

Three fingers! 😁👌🏻

Install something useful, like a two-way switch to run both pickups in serial. Wire the pickups direct to the switch and from there to your blecnd pot so that you can have your usual parallel Jazz blend (which gives the J it's famous scooped sound) but also run one into the other to give a more middy and aggressive tone, a handy option to have.

I'm in. It took a while to get a usable idea but one came, eventually, which required a full-on riff-fest. The Technical stuff - Drums are birch Yamaha with an oak snare, captured by Thomann's cheapest mics into the cheapest Behringer preamps. Bass is a Bacchus Jazz, guitars are a Tokai 335, all lovingly smoooshed together in Protools. The Song - Eyes are everywhere, everyone is watching everyone else. Especially stalkers. They're really watching hard.

It's always a little sad when a musician on stage feels the need to be seen as being above the song they're performing. If you're not into a song, don't play it.

It's already EQ'd. The serial wiring of the pickup gives it a very musical mid-bias which really doesn't need anything but the most subtle of caressing. Bypass the EQ on you amp and roll off a little high-end to taste.

Let's go 😁

Zappa wasn't playing Sex On Fire down the Dog and Duck, however.

I know I was totally into his screen wife 😁

No harm in adding some of your own flavour but, if the rest of the band start doing this too, it usually sounds like a mess and takes a crap on the song. Remember you're playing a song and be sympathetic to that, be musical, rather than a space filler.

"Described on its Twitter feed as "three pals in a band from Dryburgh" Makes sense. There are four of them.

I believe it was 1606.

Slovenia was decent, too. The bass presence is strong in this one.

This is how you do three minutes of entertainment

Those Aussies just rocked the living sheeeet out of the house. Cap doffed in their direction.

Fact of the day: Ray Winstone pronounces 'cancel' and 'council' in the very same way. Same for 'county' and 'can't he' It's a funny old game.

Yes, just the lead vocals, the backing vocals are pre-recorded, too.

Wear two pillows over your crotch to extend the gut slope down to knee level.

I've used .110 for E and I'm currently using a .147 for a low A, .120 for D sounds about right.

Sonically, not so much. However, the way it was lazily strung up, as Downunderwonder has outlined, is unforgivable. Verboten. There is no good reason for it to be so. Down with that kind of thing, now, in the future, in the past, in other dimensions and especially on the living room floor.

That misalignment of the strings over the bridge pickup is something which could not be lived with in the world of bass, nor in the world of soft furnishings.

15 with the school band in a national competition, 16 with my own band

Jaco only needed the number 4